The Second Wave
Sep. 21st, 2020 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yannisSo, the schools and universities in Greece were finally opened on the 14th of September, but they began being closed down back almost immediately, due to "quarantines".
All schoolchildren, students and personnel are obliged to wear masks.
All this shit had already caused protests and resistance, protest meetings happen in the center of Athens almost on a daily basis, but they don't attract many people.
However, it is visible that resistance is slowly growing.
Fights over masks happen regulary, some parents even beat up teachers who make children wear masks, but then these parents are send to prison, and that's it.
Today I visited the city center, and it turned out that traditional Evzones parade is not being held again. Due to some circumstances I assume the parade was not held a week ago either.
So yeah, we're returning to lockdown times, only now we have crowds of tourists again. Many hotels that had been previously closed for the whole summer began functioning also.
But, starting from today, a number of new measures will be implemented - theaters and cinemas will be closed down again, the number of people taking part in gatherings will be limited, many workers will return to working from home etc.
So it's basically a second lockdown, less strict that one we had in April, without locking everyone at home, but it is a second lockdown nethertheless.
I think the whole world will spend the next year and a half (at least) being locked down to a certain extent. There is absolutely no sign of all this madness ending in the forseeable future. Time to start thinking about spending New Year in lockdown.
The culture is basically dead, but who cares about culture in such conditions anyway.
All schoolchildren, students and personnel are obliged to wear masks.
All this shit had already caused protests and resistance, protest meetings happen in the center of Athens almost on a daily basis, but they don't attract many people.
However, it is visible that resistance is slowly growing.
Fights over masks happen regulary, some parents even beat up teachers who make children wear masks, but then these parents are send to prison, and that's it.
Today I visited the city center, and it turned out that traditional Evzones parade is not being held again. Due to some circumstances I assume the parade was not held a week ago either.
So yeah, we're returning to lockdown times, only now we have crowds of tourists again. Many hotels that had been previously closed for the whole summer began functioning also.
But, starting from today, a number of new measures will be implemented - theaters and cinemas will be closed down again, the number of people taking part in gatherings will be limited, many workers will return to working from home etc.
So it's basically a second lockdown, less strict that one we had in April, without locking everyone at home, but it is a second lockdown nethertheless.
I think the whole world will spend the next year and a half (at least) being locked down to a certain extent. There is absolutely no sign of all this madness ending in the forseeable future. Time to start thinking about spending New Year in lockdown.
The culture is basically dead, but who cares about culture in such conditions anyway.
